This month marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Babylift, the airlifting of almost 3,000 orphaned children out of Vietnam before the fall. It was a bright spot in the abbreviated presidency of Gerald Ford, and I remember being very proud of his decision to do this.
Also, this week, the 30th anniversary of Pan-Am executive Al Topping's shoe-horning of every Vietnamese Pan-Am employee and their family members onto the last plane out of Saigon. He covered the irregular procedure by writing that he was adopting them all. That's a good boss.
